They were NOT going to let us win this game.

[greenbacknative]

We went cold from the field at the end of both halves....

 

[K-town Vol Fan]

And if Ziegler plays better, UT wins. This can go all day. Fact is refs were one sided pal! You don't have to defend them.

I'm not defending the refs. Edey draws fouls. It's common knowledge. He leads the country in FTs shot per game. We knew all this going in to the game. Hell we already lived it once this year. We needed someone else to step up, and they didn't. That's all it is.

 

[Delmar]

well they definitely had something to do with Edey’s 22 ft attempts

And they’ve had something to do with 81 FT attempts to our 41 in our 2 games this year. I don’t normally like to blame refs but this exhibition borders on criminal.

 

[connor]

I'm not defending the refs. Edey draws fouls. It's common knowledge. He leads the country in FTs shot per game. We knew all this going in to the game. Hell we already lived it once this year. We needed someone else to step up, and they didn't. That's all it is.

He also loves walking with the ball under the hoop and everyone just seems to turn a blind eye officiating wise

 

[chad954ut]

I'm not defending the refs. Edey draws fouls. It's common knowledge. He leads the country in FTs shot per game. We knew all this going in to the game. Hell we already lived it once this year. We needed someone else to step up, and they didn't. That's all it is.

Edey drawing fouls is not the argument! Edey getting to walk, travel and play rough as he wants is the issue. Being one sided, that's the issue

 

[VolTull]

Either the refs were crooked, or the game is rigged,,,

Both. Someone reported seeing the refs with big pockets of new cash. Or the Mafia paid off certain players. Easy to see. No problem.

 

[Clad in Big Orange]

Missed mid-range shots that were mostly uncontested, some free throws and some open 3s even though the % was good. This was a game that was winnable if you make enough shots - we didn't.

 

[barknoxbrawler]

Purdue also had one player show up. The difference is he got to shoot about 20 free throws and toss people all over the gym with no calls.

Bingo.

 

[DenVol]

Edy draws 17 fouls and gets 1. What a travesty of officiating. Half were phantom fouls. I am totally disgusted.

We need to make our open shots, but the officials killed us today. Edey should’ve fouled out by halftime. Also, I guess 3 seconds isn’t a thing anymore. If Edey is on the bench in foul trouble like he should’ve been, we win by at least 15. Such a joke. That’s 3 games in a row against that joke of a school that we have lost bc of officials. 2 basketball and one football game.

 

[barknoxbrawler]

Missed mid-range shots that were mostly uncontested, some free throws and some open 3s even though the % was good. This was a game that was winnable if you make enough shots - we didn't.

Story of every loss of the season .

 

[jeff1vol]

We need to face it... we had ONE player that wasnt intimidated by the stage. One. The rest dont have the skills, nor mindest, of a FF or NC team. Great players play great in big games. Knecht is a great player. The rest are good college players. Not a knock. Just the truth.

 

[BallinVol]

Barnes is 70 in July, it's time.

Would you give it a rest? Barnes won't go anywhere as long as he wants to coach. You're grasping for straws here. No need to flood each post with this nonsense...

 

[RabunRaven]

Thus is the only part of Aidoo that showed up

 

[VolTull]

We need to make our open shots, but the officials killed us today. Edey should’ve fouled out by halftime.

He shouldn't have made it out of the locker room if dummy cheating refs did their jobs.


LOL

 

[tennmartin]

IMO, one of the issues was what Kenny Smith pointed out.

They didn't make Edey uncomfortable on the defensive end. The complaints some here made about not drawing fouls were on rebounds. He didn't come close to getting fouls on the defensive end because no one bothered to challenge him

Secondly, part of what occurred in this game were because it was part of the game plan for both teams. I don't remember Tennessee doubling Edey. If they did, it wasn't often. I believe Tennessee made the conscious decision to let him do whatever he wanted and not let his teammates do anything. I really think Purdue had the same idea with Knecht.

So, some of everything that occurred was actually be design.

Fouls weren't the issue. Being outrebounded 47-26 was the issue. Purdue missed 29 shots. They got the offensive rebound 13 times.

I like your second point. Knecht took 31 shot attempts with only 1 assist. The rest of the team combined took 32 or so attempts. If Knecht connects on a couple of those late attempts or have 2/3 more assists late, this could be a different topic

 

[PEPPERJAX]

Purdue was the better team.

 

[TNgradmom]

And you know what reallllllly sucks…….AL is in the Final Four…..and we’re not. Damn damn damn. I hope U-Conn beats the stuffings out of them and knocks that smirk off Mark Sears’ face!!

 

[DC_Vol]

The Purdue starters minus their big guy scored 32 pts. The Vols’ starters minus Knecht scored 19. Our bench outscored their bench 10-0. We just needed a little more from our other guys. Estrella scored as many points (2) as Aidoo, Mashack, and Vescovi combined.

Rebounds: Purdue 46, Tennessee 26

We needed 10-12 more free throws.

 

[BallinVol]

Purdue and the refs were better team.

Fixed it for you. They had great teamwork, it's no lie.

 

[Vol4life2]

Only way was if we had someone go crazy from three like Bama did last night.

 

[TAF]

 

[Majors]

No. I just have a hard time blaming refs for a loss when everyone not named DK shot 10-31.

22 more free throws by Purdue

Purdues bench scored 0

 

[livefaith]

Edy draws 17 fouls and gets 1. What a travesty of officiating. Half were phantom fouls. I am totally disgusted.

They protected him, yes. But, in a way he has to be protected a bit. We had EV3RY chance to win it but our offensive supporting cast failed once again. Uncharacteristically it was Zeiglar this game. Aidoo was horrific.

5 minutes to go and tied. We were that close to a final 4. They won the last stanza and we didn't. Sucks, but what a season!

 

[BernardKingGOAT]

Look at it this way. When one team shoots 22 more free throws than the other…it is the equivalent of spotting that team a 15-16 point lead to start the game.

It actually was an accomplishment to lose by only 6 points.

Just absurd that this game was officiated so one-sidedly.

Since it happened twice in one season, we know it's the Edey rules. What I couldn't stand was the no-calls of traveling in the pivot. The facking NBA calls that

 

[livefaith]

Rebounds: Purdue 46, Tennessee 26

Few will talk @ this. But, honestly there is your game. We had 6 or 7 utterly absurd paplays where 2 rebounders fumbled rebounds, steals went right in their hands. But, to be honest Purdue has rebounded well all year and they really played well fundamentally there.